Explorer stumbles when starting?

[dan leon]

My 96 Explorer will idle really rough and I smell gas (rich) when I start it about 1/2 an hour after I last drove. Seems like fuel might be leaking past one of the injectors when the engine is off? Condition clears up after it idles for about 25 seconds. Any ideas? Maybe a sticking injector?

Many thanks!!

 

[Hoppy]

My 92 did this as well, only when warm though. Just like yours. I never did fix the problem, but with over 420,000 Kilometres on it, well, I think it was the injectors leaking and flooding the engine. I just put up with it until I sold it and bought my 97.

Hoppy